Armada
Norwalk Ski

Men's Skis

Your ski size is largely determined by both your skiing ability and your preffered style of skiing. For example, an expert skier in Vermont will ski a far different ski than an expert in British Columbia. So take a look at our chart and explanations and find your perfect fit. Your weight also plays a large factor in finding the right ski. If you are either under or over average weight for your height consider downsizing or upsizing, respectively.

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Description

Just the tip.

Fully rockered skis are the bee's knees when you're surfing untouched pow, but let's be real: more often than not, you're going to be skiing sections of fresh with a good amount of chop, chunder, and leftovers thrown in, so you'll be better of with a ski that has some backbone. Something like, say, the Armada Norwalk. Armada's big-mountain board, the Norwalk sports a generous tip rocker and a wide platform to make short work of deep and soft snow, but has camber underfoot and a traditional tail to give you plenty of turning power, edge hold, and stability when you're punching it down big faces or hammering through day-old chop at lip-flapping speeds.

Armada stiffened the Norwalk's Hybrid Ultralight wood core up with a fiberglass laminate matrix, which provides torsional and fore-aft stability without stacking on the ounces, and built it using AR50 hybrid cap and sidewall construction—there are burly, powerful sidewalls underfoot and a lightweight cap in the tip and tail—to provide plenty of edging power while keeping the ski nimble and the swing weight low. The sintered Comp Series base and 1.7mm Impact Edges keep you ripping and gripping, too, so you can send all the lines on your huck-it list without worrying if your gear can take it.

The 110mm size brake will work but you'll have to bend the brake arms a little on each side in order for them to properly clear the ski edge. If you aren't comfortable doing this yourself, you can bring your skis to a local shop and have them do it for you!

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Armada Norwalk

Familiarity:
I've put it through the wringer

A stiff, directional, very capable big mountain ski from Armada. I love the Norwalks for their ability to lock into a big high speed turn, and stomp the biggest airs you can take without wheelie'n out like you sometimes do on fully rockered skis. They go fast, so you better be strong enough to handle them, or they will handle you. A good choice for hard charging all mountain skiers.